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Hook, Alfred

 
9781330484357: Humanity and Its Problems (Classic Reprint)
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ISBN 10: 1330484355 ISBN 13: 9781330484357
Editorial: Forgotten Books, 2018

Sinopsis

Explore what makes humanity tick and how our past shapes its future.

This thoughtful work examines the big question: what is man? It traces ideas about our origin and fate, and how those beliefs have steered social and political life. The text discusses the tension between human potential and the limits of our surroundings, showing how cultures have tried to improve life while grappling with deep, lasting questions.



Through historical examples and careful analysis, it explains how reforms, religion, and government interact as societies evolve. The book argues that progress comes in fits and starts, and that future changes depend on broad shifts in thought, institutions, and shared moral aims.




  • A clear framework for thinking about human origin, destiny, and progress

  • How beliefs about creation and fate have shaped laws, governance, and reform

  • Historical case studies illustrating the push-and-pull of social change

  • A view of society as an evolving whole, moving toward greater unity



Ideal for readers of history, philosophy, and social theory seeking a broad look at humanity’s problems and possible futures.

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These various and conflicting views, however, become of the gravest importance when we remember the far-reaching influence they have had upon the condition of mankind in the various countries in which they have been held. There have been innumerable occasions when men have striven to improve their condition by modifying the social or political systems under which they lived, by a better cultivation of the intelligence, by the introduction of new processes in the arts, and bolder investigations in the sciences. It is not difficult to conceive how profoundly the progress of the race at such times has been affected by the prevailing views as to man's origin and destiny. A belief in the specific creation of man lent'itself easily to the assertion that any attempt to alter the existing state of things was an impious revolt against the Creator; and, as that belief was for many ages almost universally held, many an impulse to improvement must have been strangled at its birth. There is little doubt that, had other views on the great question of human origin prevailed at those periods, the direction and nature of human progress would have been considerably modified.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Agricultural societies - Consequent change in character and institutions of man - Progress of religion - The social instinct; Further progress of the race - Evolution of a nation - Class divisions - Growing power and wealth of chiefs - Non-agricultural occupations; Expansion of the nation into the empire - The examples of Babylonia and Assyria; Effect of empire on character of mankind - Rome: its general condition; evolutionary nature of its advance over its predecessors; Fall of Rome - Subsequent condition of Europe - Britain under the Saxons - Growing degradation of the people and increasing power of the nobles - The Norman period - Effect of town life on the character of the people; England to the end of the eighteenth century - The middle class - Condition of the labouring classes - The moral sense

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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2018
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